Free & Reduced Price School Meal Applications
In 2023-2024, ALL students across the State of Michigan will be offered free breakfast & lunch.
- There are still benefits for the families and the district for when all families apply for free or reduced-price meals!
- Every student in the district will benefit from all families completing the application for Free & Reduced Price School Meals.
With school district offering free meals to all students across the State of Michigan, to have an application on file would still be helpful in the following areas. School meals applications help our school district allocate vital funding and resources to schools. Schools rely on the count of the number of eligible students from those applications (submitted by Oct. 1, the state’s official “count day”) in order to get extra state and federal money for “at-risk” children. School meals applications also grant your child access to other benefits, such as
- Pandemic EBT (P-EBT)
- Waived college application fees.
- Waived after-school program fees.
- Waived athletics fees.
- Access to specialized tutoring programs.
- Lower internet costs.
- Waived transportation fees for families to specialized bilingual schools.
- Waived fees to take the ATC, SAT and Advanced Placement exams.
It remains crucial to ensuring that students and their families are able to access these key benefits and for this to happen we encourage families to submit applications.
Every student in the district will benefit from all families completing the application for Free & Reduced Price School Meals.
Applications are completely confidential and secure, and do not require Social Security information.
- Immigration status is not used in application process.
Does my or my child’s immigration status matter for submitting school meals applications? Neither you nor your child needs to be a U.S. citizen in order to gain access to free or reduced-price school meals. Applications are completely confidential and secure; they do not require a Social Security number, and they have no effect on the public charge rule
Where do I fill out an application? The school district has the application posted online. Parents can also go to the school office for a physical school meal application.